Highs and lows, It’s easy to talk about all the good parts of sailing the bits I do well and I’m good at. But today I made some silly mistakes, and I think it’s…

With a northerly gale incoming I decided to try to get ahead of the storm. Wind was around 20 knots SW, my first ever solo sail on a yacht. The first challenge was to…

We were lifted into the water, engine ran smoothly. After letting go of lines and reversing off the engine cut out 😦 We slowly drifted with the tide, luckily we landed alongside another boat…

After a lot of consideration, I decided to sell my She 27 in favour of buying a boat thata. Floatsb. Has an engineAnd c is ready to go on the water, and set sail…

I choose to do my RYA coastal skippers course with the hamble school of yachting on the south coast. This allows me to skipper a sailing yacht on coastal passages by day and night.…

After the course on Thursday, me and a couple mates from work, Nathan and Miyah, along with her boyfriend, took the centre’s keelboat for a sail up river. We were meant to be sailing…

I arrived first thing on Monday and was greeted by Lea, who was full of energy and enthusiasm. She was from Germany so had flown over just for the course. She had worked a…

As part of the Gentoo youth program, I was due to spend the weekend onboard a Sunfast 3300 racing to Eastbourne and back. But on Sunday night I received a WhatsApp from James, it…